misnotify

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ notify

Verb

misnotify (third-person singular simple present misnotifies, present participle misnotifying, simple past and past participle misnotified)

1. To notify improperly, giving inaccurate information, or giving the correct information to the wrong people or in the wrong manner.
   • 1991, The White Paper: Activities of the General Assembly of Virginia, page 91:

     This is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference based on a Virginia Supreme Court case in which a party was denied appeal as untimely, but the party had been "misnotified" as to the entry of a final order.

   • 1996, D. J. Weatherall, J. G. G. Ledingham, D. A. Warrell, Oxford Textbook of Medicine - Volume 2, page 2786:

     Studies of the accuracy of death certification have revealed that fibrosing alveolitis is underdiagnosed in life and misnotified at death, and therefore the real prevalance is likely to be higher than previously estimated;

   • 2017, John Quincy Adams, David Waldstreicher, John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 2 1821-1848:

     They had met at ten, misnotified by the boy — though I had given him a written notification to shew them; appointing the hour to meet at 11.